Cookies

We use cookies just to track visits to our site and provide features to make our site work more efficiently for our users. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies used on this site

Name

Duration

Purpose

Google Analytics

Like most sites, we use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. We will try to keep this list up-to-date as best we can but Google Analytics can update the cookies they use at times so do check Google’s list of cookies if you find one not listed here.Click here for an overview of privacy at Google

_ga

2 years

Used to distinguish users.

_gid

24 hours

Used to distinguish users.

_gat

1 minute

Used to throttle request rate.

Content Management System

These cookies may be set by our content management system on a some browsers to help provide you with a better experience of using this site. They are used to control sessions and for form or error message returns.

exp_tracker

Session (until the browser is closed)

Keeps track of the last few pages you visited on our site so we can redirect you from contact forms and other actions on our site.

exp_last_visit

1 year

Contains the date of your last activity on the site and additional data if you are a registered user.

exp_last_activity

1 year

Contains the date of your last activity on the site.

exp_csrf_token

1 hour

CSRF stands for Cross Site Request Forgery. This cookie is a security enhancement for the content management system to ensure any form submissions from the site are genuine.

AddThis Social Sharing Widget

We use the AddThis social sharing widget to make it easy for you to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or share our site pages with your friends. For this process, AddThis uses a few cookies to function.